Community Engagement

Find out about:

Service-Learning

Practicums

Clinicals

Civic Engagement

Volunteering

Welcome to the Center for Community Engagement!

Service-Learning: Study. Experience. Reflect.

Service-Learning is a method of teaching and learning that engages students in meaningful service to their community through
careful integration of academic instruction. Service-Learning gives students an opportunity to use knowledge gained in the
classroom to address needs in the neighborhood.

Courses which incorporate Service-Learning vary from quarter to quarter.

Civic Engagement and Volunteering

While at SFCC, students are encouraged to become involved with the greater Spokane community through civic engagement and volunteering activities.
Campus clubs also include volunteering as one of their core values.

Service-Learning Courses

Courses which incorporate Service-Learning vary from quarter to quarter.

Community Partners

Once you know you have a Service-Learning assignment, research these Community Partner links and choose one or several
agencies or volunteer opportunities that meet your instructor's class goals.

Using the information provided, contact the agency, request a volunteer application and set up a time to meet with them
in person for an interview.

If you have difficulty getting a call or email back from your chosen Community Partner, or if you want to choose a
local non-profit organization that is not listed here, let your instructor know and contact the staff in the SFCC Center
for Community Engagement immediately.

Service-Learning Club

Mission Statement

The Service-Learning Club provides students with opportunities to become civically engaged community members. A civically engaged
student will find increased opportunities in employment, scholarship, and higher education goals. The Service-Learning Club provides
fun service activities for personal and professional growth.

Meeting Time and Place

Contact Club Advisor, Darlene Rickett

Activities

From blood drives, to city cleanup, to disaster response, the Service-Learning club is dedicated to building a better community.
Among our annual and recent activities include:

INBC Blood Drive

The INBC Blood Drive is a club project that occurs Quarterly throughout the year to benefit recipients of blood through the Inland
Northwest Blood Center in Spokane (INBC). The INBC is a non-profit organization and SFCC community partner that focuses on the
blood needs of the Inland Northwest.

Alternate Spring Break 2012

For our annual Alternate Spring Break, students traveled to the Mississippi Delta of southern Louisiana to tutor students in 3rd
and 4th grades at Pointe Aux Chenes Elementary school getting ready for their iLEAP state exams (similar to the Washington WASL
exams). This community was hit by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Ike and Andrew as well as being directly hit by the BP Gulf oil spill.
The students also visited New Orleans in a one-day whirl-wind tour, swam in the gulf, and canoed into the marsh with a marine
biologist from LUMCON. They toured Native lands in the bayous with a local Native American who is also a fisherman of the Cajun
culture, and learned firsthand about the issues affecting the Delta, its people and its culture. Finally, they visited Grand Isle
with a descendent of a pirate who settled there, went Cajun dancing and took private Cajun dance lessons.

Alternative Spring Break 2013

In 2013, the Service-Learning Club's Alternative Spring Break adventure led students back to post-hurricane southern Louisiana
to help with clean-up activities, and students were immersed in the local culture.

Alternative Spring Break 2014

The Club adventured to Hawaii in a cultural immersion service trip, combined with a Continuums of Service Conference.

Alternative Spring Break 2015

In 2015, another - yet to be announced - adventure is being thought through.

This only scratches the surface. Please see our newsletters for more of
our activities!